An accurate, sensitive, and scalable method to identify functional sites in protein structures

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 326, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 255-261

  Yao, Hui ^a   Kristensen, David M ^a,b   Mihalek, Ivana ^a   Sowa, Mathew E ^a   Shaw, Chad ^a   Kimmel, Marek ^b,c   Kavraki, Lydia ^b,c   Lichtarge, Olivier ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b W M Keck Ctr for Compl B   (United States)

^c Rice University   (United States)

Author keywords

Drug target; Molecular recognition; Protein evolution; Protein interactions; Structural motif

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

ACCURACY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; DRUG DESIGN; GENOMICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

EID: 0037423759     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)01336-0     Document Type: Article

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